What would happen if you route the traffic through your network in a way that it always goes from a Huawei to a Cisco and from a Cisco to a Huawei? Will now the NSA know what the Chinese are spying at, and the Chinese get all the INTEL NSA is looking for?
Or will the Huawei block all steganographically embedded traffic to the NSA, while the Cisco deflects all secret traffic to the Chinese Ministry of State Security?
What's even more interesting is the fact, that 16bit processors like the Motorola 68000 were on the CoCom list. So I wonder how the Commodore Amigas even found their way into an East German research facility.
Here we are back at the old correlation vs. causation game. Just because the date of the move to Intel predates SGI's bankruptcy, it doesn't mean that it caused it. Maybe the move to Intel gave SGI the chance to delay the bankruptcy for several month?
It was at the Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung Rossendorf in the former communist East Germany, where I saw two Commodore Amiga 2000 being deployed as central managing units for a lot of nuclear experiments. Apparently, the ZIK Rossendorf paid 200,000 East German Mark (or about 10 years salary of a well paid East German engineer) for the computers.
And there is even more to it. In the articles, they just point to facilities whose type and location is already well known, so they don't run afoul any legislation about revealing military secrets.
But you could actually go and explore the maps, and maybe you find that the block where the Mom&Pop Meat Processing Plant should be located, and it is also blurred out. So you start to wonder if behind the gates of the Mom&Pop Meat Processing Plant something else than meat gets processed.
But Yandex, Bing, Google and everyone else blurring out the images means there are non-military, non-intelligence-agent people having access to the clear images they later blurr. So you don't know who else has access to those images.
And it means that there is less plausible deniability for the location and even some details of said facilities. Lets say there is some accident, and the victims of the accidents point to a military facility as the cause. Until now, the responsible government could simply say: There is no proof that there is any military facility nearby and thus refuse recompensation. Now people can point to the publicly available imagery and say: There is.
If you look at hydrocarbons, you mostly have about two hydrogen atoms per carbon atom (less for non-saturated compounds). So it makes sense to talk about mol and not about mass. If you for instance burn octane (C8H18), you get 8 mol CO2 and 9 mol H2O per mol of octane.
We deal with overpopulation, albeit not in the way you might think. Global birth rates are falling since 60 years, and most countries are now below 2.5 children per woman. But the number of people already born and reaching reproductive age is not shrinking yet, as the people getting children right now were born 20 to 40 years ago. If you don't go out and start killing people of age 40 and younger, population will grow another 3 billion, until it levels at 10 billion, even if the birth rates worldwide fall below 2 children per woman.
Effectively, we are dealing now with the birthrates of the 1970ies and 1980ies, and we can't change them retroactively except by killing people born after 1970.
Jet fuel has about 36 MJ/kg, which is about 16 MJ/lb.
Li-Ion accumulators have about 0.7 MJ/kg or about 0.3 MJ/lb.
But because the energy efficiency of a jet engine is only about 40 percent, the 16 MJ/lb are more equal to 6.4 MJ/lb compared with Li-Ion, which has a nearly 100 percent efficiency. Still, effective Li-Ion-energy density is only a twentieth of that of jet fuel.
That is really all hydrocarbon based fuels are, a carrier for hydrogen.
Not exactly, as burning the carbon also provides thermal energy. In fact, most of the energy stored in hydrocarbons comes from burning the carbon, about 400 kJ/mol CO2. H2O provides about 242 kJ/mol.
Maybe they'd end up doing some of the development that they had planned for GF1 at a former GM facility instead - who knows. If they do buy a Michigan plant, however, UAW will surely step up their campaign - and most of the local workers would probably be pro-UAW, unlike in California where UAW had basically backstabbed them during the negotiations that led to NUMMI's closing.
There is much more to it than just the empty shell of a factory plant. There are literally thousands of people within commuting distance, who are eagerly seeking jobs and have lots of experience in the car industry.
Yes and no. Water vapor indeed is a very strong absorber in the thermal part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and so is methane. But differently than carbon dioxide, both water vapor and methane fall out of the atmosphere very quickly (in the case of water vapor, this fallout is called 'rain' or 'snow', while methane molecules get destroyed by sunlight). Carbon dioxide instead stays basically forever in the atmosphere. Other planets like Venus and Mars have atmospheres where carbon dioxide is the main component, reaching more than 95 percent. Another aspect is that carbon dioxide reaches much higher in the atmosphere than methane or water vapor, making the carbon dioxide filter much more effective. While the vapor layer is about 2 km thick, carbon dioxide reaches as high as 30 km and more. Methane is very seldom in the atmosphere, reaching about 1.8 ppm, while carbon dioxide currently is at 400 ppm. So while methane may be much more potent as a greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide dwarfs the effect by sheer numbers. And the effect of water vapor is not as easy: If it condenses in the atmosphere, we get clouds, and clouds reflect the light, thus reverting the greenhouse effect.
Carbon dioxide just sits in the atmosphere, lets the sunlight pass, but absorbs the thermal radiation coming up from the Earth's surface, heats up in the process and causes raising temperatures.
Ironically, the Green House effect is a purely quantum mechanical one. We can calculate the absorption spectrum of small molecules down to 10 digits, including those of carbon dioxide, water and methane.
I'm with Richard Feynman in this case. It doesn't matter if it is absurd. It doesn't matter if it doesn't fit any nice philosophical concept. It only matters that it allows to calculate events for 10 or 20 digits or better, and the results of the calculation fits the experiment.
Someone once told me, for him the wave-particle dualism looks to him as if macroscopicly, there are mansions, and there are workshops. And now someone talks about the mansion-workshop-dualism of bricks, and how only the construction of a building can reveal the mansioness or the workshopess of a brick.
At the edge of knowledge, you will always find strange concepts. That is nothing new. It never was different. Wave-particle-dualism, morphing spacetime, magnetism, electricity and light being the same thing -- all of those have been fringe ideas at first (or as Max Planck once put it: acts of desperation). Only in hindsight, when they are long established in the scientific community, we consider them matters of course.
It just works differently. Every company announces 10 or 20 or 50 nifty sounding ideas from their R&D-labs. And eventually, one of them materializes. But at the time of the announcement, no one knew which of the 10 or 20 or 50 it will be. Otherwise you wouldn't need R&D, because you already knew how to make the ideas work.
In the same sense you could claim that you don't "use Linux", if you are working on a desktop on you ubuntu system.
A user never directly interacts with the operating system. That's what the shell is for. You are using a shell (yes, also a graphic user interface is a shell, albeit a much more complex one than a command line interface), and you could be totally agnostic to the underlying operating system. A shell is a special application that allows a user to request computing resources from the operating system.
So either the computing resource you are using right now is administered by a Linux kernel, then you are using Linux. Or it is not. Then you are not using Linux. Just because the user interface doesn't look like bash or XWindow, it's still a shell around a Linux system.
As far as I can tell from the original PNAS article, they found evidence of two sets of mtDNA (parental and maternal), but no recombination in a single mitochondrium.
Forensics don't use mtDNA, except to find relatives. With mtDNA, you can as a maximum prove that some people are not related, which in the most cases exonerates the defendant in a criminal case. So I doubt this will change the outcome of many cases.
Yes, the industrial revolution was able to increase the workforce, but for some simple reason: Massively increased productivity. A spinning machine replaced up to 100 manual spinners. A mechanical loom replaced up to 100 people. A 300 HP steam engine replaced -- yes, 300 horses. The same with the second Industrial revolution, where international information exchange via telegraph and later telephone, and travel were sped up immensely, allowing international commerce and international division of labor. And overall stands the agronomical revolution, which set all the people free to work in the new towns, cities, factories and trades. Wealth increased, because goods and services became cheaper and were affordable by more customers, who in turn earned higher wages to actually buy them.
Compared with that, the Information revolution did not increase productivity by that much. Yes, it's nice to have information at your fingertips, but you don't have those immense productivity increases. Most increases of productivity today still are part of Industrial Revolution I (manual labor gets mechanized) or Industrial Revolution II (trade and information exchange get sped up). But information at your fingertips doesn't make much more available to more people. The information were available already, you could always go to a library to look them up. Knowing things is nice, but it is not productive per se, other than actually making stuff (mechanization) and putting it into the hands of those who want it (trade and transport). Today's information revolution eliminates jobs that were not very productive to begin with: the sport reporter, the analyst, the concierge, the office clerk. It only reduces the cost of doing paperwork, which in turn makes more paperwork feasible.
I know the story of the alleged German tariffs on imported cars, the infamous 19%. But what never got into the heads of the U.S.: German manufacturers have to pay them too! Every car sold in Germany has 19% taxes on it. It's called VAT, and it applies to most goods.
When I heard that the U.S. government complained that German customers have to pay VAT on U.S. cars, I was wondering if I was in some bizarro parallel world like Alice in Wonderland.
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Or will the Huawei block all steganographically embedded traffic to the NSA, while the Cisco deflects all secret traffic to the Chinese Ministry of State Security?
What a conundrum!
What's even more interesting is the fact, that 16bit processors like the Motorola 68000 were on the CoCom list. So I wonder how the Commodore Amigas even found their way into an East German research facility.
Here we are back at the old correlation vs. causation game. Just because the date of the move to Intel predates SGI's bankruptcy, it doesn't mean that it caused it. Maybe the move to Intel gave SGI the chance to delay the bankruptcy for several month?
Funny how you have no clue about former East Germany.
It was at the Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung Rossendorf in the former communist East Germany, where I saw two Commodore Amiga 2000 being deployed as central managing units for a lot of nuclear experiments. Apparently, the ZIK Rossendorf paid 200,000 East German Mark (or about 10 years salary of a well paid East German engineer) for the computers.
And the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM) still lives on and powers 99% of all smartphones.
But you could actually go and explore the maps, and maybe you find that the block where the Mom&Pop Meat Processing Plant should be located, and it is also blurred out. So you start to wonder if behind the gates of the Mom&Pop Meat Processing Plant something else than meat gets processed.
And it means that there is less plausible deniability for the location and even some details of said facilities. Lets say there is some accident, and the victims of the accidents point to a military facility as the cause. Until now, the responsible government could simply say: There is no proof that there is any military facility nearby and thus refuse recompensation. Now people can point to the publicly available imagery and say: There is.
If you look at hydrocarbons, you mostly have about two hydrogen atoms per carbon atom (less for non-saturated compounds). So it makes sense to talk about mol and not about mass. If you for instance burn octane (C8H18), you get 8 mol CO2 and 9 mol H2O per mol of octane.
Effectively, we are dealing now with the birthrates of the 1970ies and 1980ies, and we can't change them retroactively except by killing people born after 1970.
Li-Ion accumulators have about 0.7 MJ/kg or about 0.3 MJ/lb.
But because the energy efficiency of a jet engine is only about 40 percent, the 16 MJ/lb are more equal to 6.4 MJ/lb compared with Li-Ion, which has a nearly 100 percent efficiency. Still, effective Li-Ion-energy density is only a twentieth of that of jet fuel.
That is really all hydrocarbon based fuels are, a carrier for hydrogen.
Not exactly, as burning the carbon also provides thermal energy. In fact, most of the energy stored in hydrocarbons comes from burning the carbon, about 400 kJ/mol CO2. H2O provides about 242 kJ/mol.
Maybe you can have several 780 kW packages being recharged and just replace the empty one after a flight with a fresh one from the charging station?
Maybe they'd end up doing some of the development that they had planned for GF1 at a former GM facility instead - who knows. If they do buy a Michigan plant, however, UAW will surely step up their campaign - and most of the local workers would probably be pro-UAW, unlike in California where UAW had basically backstabbed them during the negotiations that led to NUMMI's closing.
There is much more to it than just the empty shell of a factory plant. There are literally thousands of people within commuting distance, who are eagerly seeking jobs and have lots of experience in the car industry.
Carbon dioxide just sits in the atmosphere, lets the sunlight pass, but absorbs the thermal radiation coming up from the Earth's surface, heats up in the process and causes raising temperatures.
Ironically, the Green House effect is a purely quantum mechanical one. We can calculate the absorption spectrum of small molecules down to 10 digits, including those of carbon dioxide, water and methane.
Someone once told me, for him the wave-particle dualism looks to him as if macroscopicly, there are mansions, and there are workshops. And now someone talks about the mansion-workshop-dualism of bricks, and how only the construction of a building can reveal the mansioness or the workshopess of a brick.
At the edge of knowledge, you will always find strange concepts. That is nothing new. It never was different. Wave-particle-dualism, morphing spacetime, magnetism, electricity and light being the same thing -- all of those have been fringe ideas at first (or as Max Planck once put it: acts of desperation). Only in hindsight, when they are long established in the scientific community, we consider them matters of course.
It just works differently. Every company announces 10 or 20 or 50 nifty sounding ideas from their R&D-labs. And eventually, one of them materializes. But at the time of the announcement, no one knew which of the 10 or 20 or 50 it will be. Otherwise you wouldn't need R&D, because you already knew how to make the ideas work.
A user never directly interacts with the operating system. That's what the shell is for. You are using a shell (yes, also a graphic user interface is a shell, albeit a much more complex one than a command line interface), and you could be totally agnostic to the underlying operating system. A shell is a special application that allows a user to request computing resources from the operating system.
So either the computing resource you are using right now is administered by a Linux kernel, then you are using Linux. Or it is not. Then you are not using Linux. Just because the user interface doesn't look like bash or XWindow, it's still a shell around a Linux system.
As far as I can tell from the original PNAS article, they found evidence of two sets of mtDNA (parental and maternal), but no recombination in a single mitochondrium.
Forensics don't use mtDNA, except to find relatives. With mtDNA, you can as a maximum prove that some people are not related, which in the most cases exonerates the defendant in a criminal case. So I doubt this will change the outcome of many cases.
Compared with that, the Information revolution did not increase productivity by that much. Yes, it's nice to have information at your fingertips, but you don't have those immense productivity increases. Most increases of productivity today still are part of Industrial Revolution I (manual labor gets mechanized) or Industrial Revolution II (trade and information exchange get sped up). But information at your fingertips doesn't make much more available to more people. The information were available already, you could always go to a library to look them up. Knowing things is nice, but it is not productive per se, other than actually making stuff (mechanization) and putting it into the hands of those who want it (trade and transport). Today's information revolution eliminates jobs that were not very productive to begin with: the sport reporter, the analyst, the concierge, the office clerk. It only reduces the cost of doing paperwork, which in turn makes more paperwork feasible.
Obamacare causes suicides and an ongoing opiod crisis? Because that are the main factors for the declining life expectancy.
When I heard that the U.S. government complained that German customers have to pay VAT on U.S. cars, I was wondering if I was in some bizarro parallel world like Alice in Wonderland.